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A Cheap Bet on a Housing Recovery

It is said that a comfortable house is a great source of happiness. Matching buyers and sellers of homes can bring ample rewards, too, although you might not know it from the performance of Realogy Holdings' shares. The nation's largest owner and franchiser of residential real-estate brokerages has seen its stock tumble 23% this year, to $38, amid concerns about the pace of the U.S. housing recovery and an earnings miss.